AIBU?
Looks like a junior doctors strike is coming. Reasonable or unreasonable?
Erica56 · 30/09/2022 21:14
Am I being unreasonable?
376 votes. Final results.
POLLmissbipolar · 01/10/2022 10:50
How does this work in practice? Like if there's zero Jr doctors then surely this puts patients and risk? Especially given the current nursing situation as well?
thebabessavedme · 01/10/2022 11:00
I have spent most of the last 24hours in an assement ward with my elderly mother - NOTHING would induce me to work in any part of the NHS, I cannot describe the chaos (this is after I was told I was looking at a 6 hour wait for an ambulance for dm who was collapsed on a car park floor) I have had to change my DMs incontinance knickers, wash her, make her comfy etc, the staff were like blue arsed flies they were so busy, the beds were not cooling down from one patient to the next the turn over was so quick. Yet despite everything, everyone who treated my dm was professional, kind, caring and respectful. I would like to thank all the staff because frankly I think I would have stood in the middle of the ward and cried if I was being asked to work like this. Please do what you feel you must to improve conditions, not only for junior doctors but all staff, this cannot go on, this is just a snapshot of one old lady's care, if that includes striking then so be it!
holidayelbow · 01/10/2022 07:08
I am going against the grain here but I don't agree with the strike.
My friend is a junior doctor. Did her F1 and F2 full time. She has two full weeks holiday in between each rotation. Whilst she was busy - she did regular hours and had time off.
She is now part time and sometimes becuase of how it works can go a whole wee k without working, and then she sometimes picks up locum shifts and gets £££££ for it.
Young lads in Afghanistan got blown up on 18k year. No one seemed to be bothered about those super low paid roles.
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